I, for one, am glad that Google is doing it's best to make sure that when I drag Pegman to a street highlighted in blue on their maps I see the most up-to-date Streetview imagery possible. These things are necessary for my trip planning.

I would people getting the closest thing they can to a first hand view of the damage could only help these people. With the shenanigans in congress, it's only a matter of time until the "It's really not that bad" talking point is force fed to us through the right wing noise machine.

All my bosses live 2000 miles away in Long Island and New Jersey. Frankly I've never worked for more self obsessed a-holes in all my life. They were the worst people I've ever worked with before Sandy and they are still the worst people I've ever worked with. Fark them!

fusillade762:Others, however, say that mapping the storm's aftermath could be used as a means to raise awareness of the magnitude of the damage

Seems like the benefit of this would outweigh the "O NOES, PROPERTY VALUES!!!" complaint.

That's kinda part of the problem, though. When you're shouting at someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, it gets harder if you can see with your own eyes that they just lost their legs, boots and all.

Um, no, the wrecks of former multi-million dollar houses sitting in the water will do that.

Locally, the owner of a small island in a creek wanted to raise the elevation of the island to pretect it from flooding. Adjacent property owners objected because that "would make our property flood more."

PancakeBunny:All my bosses live 2000 miles away in Long Island and New Jersey. Frankly I've never worked for more self obsessed a-holes in all my life. They were the worst people I've ever worked with before Sandy and they are still the worst people I've ever worked with. Fark them!

Void_Beavis:PancakeBunny: All my bosses live 2000 miles away in Long Island and New Jersey. Frankly I've never worked for more self obsessed a-holes in all my life. They were the worst people I've ever worked with before Sandy and they are still the worst people I've ever worked with. Fark them!

After the Christchurch earthquake, the National Library of New Zealand commissioned a photographer to record the damage for posterity. Someone, whether a public or private institution should be doing this sor of thing after major disasters, not only for history but also so it can help teach us what went wrong and what we might do to mitigate such disasters in the future.

thisispete:After the Christchurch earthquake, the National Library of New Zealand commissioned a photographer to record the damage for posterity. Someone, whether a public or private institution should be doing this sor of thing after major disasters, not only for history but also so it can help teach us what went wrong and what we might do to mitigate such disasters in the future.

Um, no, the wrecks of former multi-million dollar houses sitting in the water will do that.

Locally, the owner of a small island in a creek wanted to raise the elevation of the island to pretect it from flooding. Adjacent property owners objected because that "would make our property flood more."

Outraged at a colorful car? Let's send in a fleet of novelty commercial vehicles on a goodwill tour. Oscar Meyer Wienermobile, the Red Bull can truck, the Spammobile, and the Peepster. And clown cars, lots of clown cars. Cheer up!

Elected officials don't want the world to watch the crappy job they'll do repairing the damage. They don't want criticisms of why it's X months/years later and such-and-such still is in ruin. They just want aid money and to give speeches.